2014/02/15= 2014 is going to be so hillarious … so many “trusted” public figures and people who got where they are by abiding to a corrupt hierarchical system based on NOTHING. Based on the esteem of each other!!! And as they keep trying to bring down bitcoin, like they’ve been trying it since 2011… Just because it frustrates them that they can’t understand it, and can’t “control” it.

But now, every one knows that bitcoin and decentralization is right, and whatever these guys “imaginary” position in society is, be it CEO of The biggest bank in the world, Chief economist of Who gives a fuck academy… however glorified they may be, they will now have to prove their worth … their bull shit is being called out. Most of these guys cant prove shit to anyone else but the guy signing their paycheck. Well with bitcoin Math is signing your paycheck.

These guys can’t survive or understand a freemarket, they don’t understand provable trust. They don’t understand that value must be justified. They can’t understand things they can’t make up and impose on others.

People have always been complaining to me, asking me “but what is this imaginary bitcoin money worth? i mean this 20$ bill is printed on paper, i can feel it, i can touch it.. i know it’s real” — Seriously, if you’ve said this to me or something similar, by now perhaps the media has better explained bitcoin than i have, and you understand it a bit better, so i’d like you to think about what you said, and tell me you didn’t sound retarded, or like a lunatic.

An increase in the amount of people on linked in with Blockchain development as a skillset

Increase in amount of people repeating ideas they’ve heard on youtube or by Andreaa antonopoulos (who has claimed in the past to collect ideas that seemed correct/good/better and repeat them, which is not a bad thing especially not in his case since he can express ideas often more clearly, to a broader public. This is in my opinion a great marketing tool/skill.)

A lot of consultants are spreading (justifiable) FUD about ICOs, so that they can offer their advice on what ICO may be better, or how to qualify an ICO.

There is great demand from businesses and people who are now seeing the potential profit opportunities and technical opportunities they shunned away from in the last few years.

I’ll add more ranting against consultants as i think of them or hear about them.

My initial criticism for ethereum smart contracts was the vulnerability to recursive attacks like that which was incorporated into the DAO, and saw over 1B$ in today’s money disappear.

But the new wave of ICO effectively incentivises speculation, users create otherwise “unnecessary” transactions, causing DoS on the network, the same way Bitcoin’s mining incentivises users to support the network via Proof of Work mining. Except sending transactions to a single contract/address does not benefit the network/platform on which the transaction is made.

After hearing a lot of naysayers speak of “shorting bitcoin” since the 1200$ range i decided to take a technical look at the charts, knowing fundamentals have been strong as always.

I recognized a symmetrical triangle pattern, something i saw a couple of times in small cap stocks in the market last year, and noticed in btc/altcoins too. I’m posting it here cause it looks like if i drew it perfectly it would be the perfect example of such a pattern!

Currently in no particular order, i followed this pattern i quickly noticed. It’s deceiving to see so many “self proclaimed bitcoin believers/experts” be short on bitcoin, so i’m happy for the rally.

The democracy behind bitcoin is true, and fair, but i think we shouldn’t get caught up by these “revolutionary” and political reasons why Bitcoin will rise, bitcoin’s usefulness for technology is unprecedented.

Bitcoin is not what the internet was to libraries/tv/media in general.

Bitcoin is infinitely more, to automated computer systems, which we depend on every time we use the internet, the only difference is nothing has been implemented yet that uses bitcoin to fund it.

Computers can already learn, but they need humans to teach them, and humans are greedy and lazy and wont work for free. What if a computer paid humans to teach it?

It’s also a 100% proof of transaction, or contract exchange. It is undeniable, it’s impossible to falsify a contract written on the blockchain. This will replace basically every lawyer, accountant, notary, and anyone else whose task can be automated by computers.

Right now, we’re scratching the surface, and making some money off the hype, but honestly, even if it drops to 1$ tomorrow, i would keep on buying as much as i can afford. Because i know it’s going to be an important technology whose worth is determined by the amount of money spent to generate bitcoins.

Just a thought.

* We’ll have to change our perception of modern countries by then, as it seems those currently ahead are lagging behind with Bitcoin 😉

In the past few weeks the bitcoin has rallied to all time highs and broken many records. It’s getting attention from many people, and is now more than ever seen as a potentially useful instrument.

My perception is that Bitcoin’s power lies way beyond it’s use as a currency, rather it is a decentralized sequential register of trust. I will go into more details as to my understanding of bitcoin in this blog.

I’ve been busy the last couple weeks mining and investing left and right, i have had no time to structure the blog. I’d like to welcome a new Author and contributor: slimus.

He’ll be offering his opinion, knowledge and advanced financial skills on many aspects of the Bitcoin phenomenon.